creative evaluation – Curious Minds

May 7, 2025

May 7, 2025

Social Return on Investment

Demonstrating the impact of arts and cultural work is an essential part of delivering high-quality practice. It's important for understanding whether their activities are achieving the intended outcomes, providing external validation, and supporting advocacy by clearly articulating value to other sectors. Social Return on Investment is a framework for measuring and accounting for a broader concept of value. It measures change in ways that are relevant to the people or organisations that experience it.

July 13, 2023

An employee of Chester Zoo speaks to a group of young people at the Zoo.

July 13, 2023

Exploring Inclusive Evaluation

A recent impact evaluation, conducted by Curious Minds with Chester Zoo, has led to the development of an inclusive evaluation methodology for projects involving young people with learning disabilities.

The research evaluation focused on measuring the impacts and effectiveness of a UK wildlife-themed project.

June 16, 2023

A young school pupil wearing a cape and mask speaks confidently into a microphone - From WoW's Super Heroes project.

June 16, 2023

The Power of Words

For the past 4 years, Curious Minds has been working with Writing on the Wall to evaluate and support their pioneering creative writing programme, Super Heroes. Here she summarises her findings - breaking down the key features of the project and the evidence of impact that she, with the Writing on the Wall project team, has been able to document.